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(2024.1) Shibboleth Service Provider (SP) - SAML2

Owned by Brian Dixon
Last updated: Apr 02, 2024 by Brian Dixon
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Installation Resources

Installation Packages

Required Packages:

  • libcurl-openssl

  • liblog4shib1

  • opensaml-schemas

  • shibboleth

  • xml-security-c-bin

  • xmltooling-schemas

Dependencies that should install automatically:

  • libsaml8

  • libxerces-c-3_1

  • libxml-security-c17

  • libxmltooling6

  • unixODBC

Servers

Version Compatibility

PCR-360 uses the Shibboleth SP version 3, which is the latest version and should be fully supported by Shibboleth IdP 4. In fact, either SP version (2 or 3) should work with any IdP supporting SAML2 regardless of the IdP version. Customers should feel free to use Shibboleth ldP 4 at their discretion.

Entity Server

In order to authenticate, PCR-360 must connect to an entity server

Metadata Provider

PCR-360 needs to connect to a metadata provider in order to receive and format attributes

Attribute Mapping

PCR-360 can map any attributes (up to 7) that Shibboleth sends as long as it knows:

TLDR:

  1. At minimum, we need the attribute name and and attribute id.

  2. Shibboleth genrally send these attributes by default:

    1. a unique id (eppn, uid, or similar)

    2. first name

    3. last name

    4. email address

  3. Any attributes not released by default, but needed by the customer for for mapping, such as phone number, will need to be released specifically to PCR-360 application by the Shibboleth server.

  4. The attributes will update if changed on the Shibboleth server.

Common Attributes

The most common attributes PCR-360 recieves are:

  • eduPersonPrincipalName, eppn, or uid

  • displayName

  • givenName

  • surname or sn

  • phone

  • mail or email

  • memberOf or isMemberOf

    Most Comon Mappings /etc/shibboleth/attribute-map.xml

    <Attribute name="urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.1" id="uid"/> <Attribute name="urn:oid:2.5.4.4" id="surname"/> <Attribute name="urn:oid:2.5.4.42" id="givenName"/> <Attribute name="urn:oid:0.9.2342.19200300.100.1.3" id="mail"/> <Attribute name="urn:oid:1.3.6.1.4.1.5923.1.5.1.1" id="isMemberOf"/>



Here is how the attributes are mapped to values used by PCR-360

  1. Accessing and Modifying Configuration INI Files

  2. More information about the AUTH_ROLEMAPPING Attribut

auth.AUTH_ATTRMAP_USERID = eduPersonPrincipalName (uid or unfederated-id) auth.AUTH_ATTRMAP_DISPLAYNAME = displayName auth.AUTH_ATTRMAP_FIRSTNAME = givenName (ucscpersonofficialgivenname) auth.AUTH_ATTRMAP_LASTNAME = surname (ucscpersonofficialsn) auth.AUTH_ATTRMAP_EMAIL = mail auth.AUTH_ATTRMAP_PHONE = phone auth.AUTH_ATTRMAP_GROUPS = isMemberOf

Required Attributes

While PCR-360 can map up to to 7 attributes, the only required attributes are:

  1. unique id (eppn or similar)

  2. first name

  3. last name

  4. email address

The other attributes are optional and will give the PCR-360 more information when creating Users.

Role Mapping

You may view more information on PCR-360 Users and Permissions here: Admin:User_Management

Roles are mapped into the PCR-360 in one of three ways: More info about Roles

Default Settings

All SSO groups are ignored and all New User are added as a guest

auth.AUTH_ROLEMAPPING = false auth.roles.default = "Guest"

Contact Type Mapping



  1. Contact types are manually mapped to roles in the application config INI

  2. Contact Mapping follows the form of auth.roles.{CONTACT_TYPE_LISTS.CODE} = {ROLE_NAME}

    1. More info about Workers/Contacts#ContactTypesContactTypes

    2. More info about Roles





SSO Mapping

Shibboleth, Active Directory, etc





  1. SSO Role Mapping allows mapping an SSO group to a PCR-360 Role.

  2. The value of the SSO attribute is then mapped on the Role:

    1. Enabling the AUTH_ROLEMAPPING setting enables the Authentication Mapping field on the (2024.1) Roles form.

    2. The Fully Qualified Shibboleth Group Name is entered here to map the Role to the Shibboleth group

  3. Once implemented, the Application will

    1. Map the Fully Qualified Shibboleth Group Name to the Role via the attribute configured by AUTH_ATTRMAP_GROUPS

    2. Add/Update the Role to users in the Fully Qualified Shibboleth Group Name